In article ,
Cyrus A Virus wrote:
>
> 1. Change the driver from "nv" to "nvidia" in Device section.

Already done.

> 2.In the Module section, make sure you have:
> Load "glx"

Was.

> 3.You should also remove the following lines:
> Load "dri"

Commented out.

> Load "GLcore"

Wasn't there.

> 4. Add these lines in Device section:
> VideoRam "WHATEVER IS YOUR CARDS VRAM IN KB"

I'd get that info from XFree86 anyhow. Since it autodetects the amount (in
this case "(--) NVIDIA(0): VideoRAM: 16384 kBytes"), isn't it rather
pointless to list it?

> Option "NvAGP" "3"

What does that do?

> Option "NoLogo" "yes"

Good idea. I KNOW it's an Nvidia chip. I don't have to be told every time.

> Option "RenderAccel" "yes"
> Option "DigitalVibrance" "128"
>
> 5. Change the "depth" to 24 in Screen Section.

Was.

> 6. Also make sure that you enable swap.

Turned on, but I don't use much of it:

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 775172 329596 445576 0 30068 186700
-/+ buffers/cache: 112828 662344
Swap: 401616 40496 361120

> You can check if it is running properly by issuing the command:--
> swapon -s
> If it gives you the priority as -1 and used as 0. it sure isn't
> working.

Well, I've seen swap not get used, in a machine with enough RAM.

Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/hda2 partition 401616 40496 -1

> Change the priority to the max "32767" by changing the option
> Defaults in etc/fstab to
> "pri=32767" without qoutes in swap partition section. Its only going to
> help.

Does the priority matter when there's only one swap partition/file?

> 7. Restart in runlevel 5 and then try to use the glxgears.

Woohoo, xdm works!

5166 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1033.200 FPS
5690 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1138.000 FPS
5695 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1139.000 FPS
5692 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1138.400 FPS
5695 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1139.000 FPS

Not too shabby...

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In article ,
Hactar wrote:
> In article ,
> Cyrus A Virus wrote:
>
> > 7. Restart in runlevel 5 and then try to use the glxgears.

Now I don't know why it would care, but Opera segfaults when I'm in runlevel
5. When I log in in text mode and then run "startx", it works. Got me.

> 5166 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1033.200 FPS
> 5690 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1138.000 FPS
> 5695 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1139.000 FPS
> 5692 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1138.400 FPS
> 5695 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1139.000 FPS
>
> Not too shabby...

I was wrong -- that was in 16bpp. In 24bpp it's about half as fast:

2156 frames in 5.0 seconds = 431.200 FPS
2737 frames in 5.0 seconds = 547.400 FPS
2780 frames in 5.0 seconds = 556.000 FPS
2779 frames in 5.0 seconds = 555.800 FPS
2770 frames in 5.0 seconds = 554.000 FPS

For that kind of difference, 16bpp looks better...

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